The Truth About The Roman Catholic Part 1

 The Rosary .....1090 AD
Matthew 6:7, Jesus said, "But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking."

 Purgatory proclaimed  .....1439 AD(Luke 16:22-26). After death, there is a great gulf fixed between them which cannot be crossed, and notice that this is before the final judgment, because later the rich man pleads that Lazarus might be sent to his father’s house in order to testify to his five brethren. Remember, too, the account reads, ". . . The rich man also died and was buried. And being in torment in Hades, he lifted up his eyes. . . ." That is the sequence. So, we see that after death there is a great gulf fixed that cannot be crossed. What purpose then, can purgatory serve? It is not strange that Catholicism rejects the Bible; to accept the Bible would be to destroy the foundations of Catholicism.

Apocryphal books added to Bible .....1546 ADDeuteronomy 12: ³² See that you do all I command you; do not add to it or take away from it.

THE SINFUL WORSHIP OF MARY - the woman who rides the beast
The place bestowed to Mary in the Roman Catholic Church is not Scriptural, rather Satanic - the Woman who rides the beast in Revelations is The Catholic church with her abominable perversion of the figure Mary.
       Revelation 17:7-9 And the angel said to me, "Why do you wonder? I will tell you the mystery of the               woman and of the beast that carries her, which has the seven heads and the ten horns. (8) "The beast                that you saw was, and is not, and is about to come up out of the abyss and go to destruction. And                 those who dwell on the earth, whose name has not been written in the book of life from the                           foundation of the world, will wonder when they see the beast, that he was and is not and will come.               (9) "Here is the mind which has wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains on which the                        woman sits,

Interestingly, the woman who rides the beast sits on 7 hills. Which city in the world is built on 7 hills? No! Not the Vatican City, surely not!

It cannot be denied that during the last one hundred years, veneration of Mary has dramatically increased. Note in the historical chart given earlier in this article that the exaltation of Mary and the term "Mother of God," became official Catholic dogma in 431 AD with prayers to her proclaimed in 600 AD. Note also that the "Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary" was not proclaimed until 1854 AD; her "Assumption" not until 1950 AD; and her title "Mother of the Church" not until 1965 AD.

Some Roman Catholic observers believe it may not be much longer until Mary is officially proclaimed "Co-redemptrix with Christ." In fact, the premier issue of the Roman Catholic publication Catholic Heritage displayed a front page with the title: "Mary, Mother of the Church." In a Question and Answer column the question is asked, "At the foot of the cross, Mary shared in the mystery of the passion. True or False. Answer: True. Mary united her sorrows to those of her Son. The sorrowful and immaculate heart of Mary bled with her Son for all of mankind. For this reason, we invoke her under the title of Co-redemptrix." Mary was NOT immaculately conceived, nor was she immaculate, nowhere near perfect. She was blessed among women, but still a SINNER! Her spirit is in heaven along with all the dead saints, but her body awaits the 2nd coming of Christ!

During the past forty years, each pope has done his part to increase Mary's influence in the Roman Catholic Church based completely on tradition rather than upon the Bible. In the August 28, 1975, issue of the official Vatican newspaper, L'Osservatore Romano, Pope Paul VI, speaking of the ceremony celebrated the day before in honor of the Madonna at the Feast of the Assumption of Mary, said, "Her venerate image, known as 'Salus Populi Romani,' was carried in procession from St. Mary Major's as part of the Holy Year ceremonies, so that the overflow crowd of pilgrims, coming from all parts of the world, could see it and thus increasetheir devotion to her. In this way we should all be reminded of the meaning and practice of the cult of Mary, inseparable from the unique and central cult of Christ ... Let us pray to her with humble, trusting and childlike faith." !! The present pope, John Paul II, has dedicated himself completely to Mary. During his visit to Vancouver, B.C. in 1985, the special souvenir edition of B.C. Catholic carried a full page color photo of the pope under the caption of, Totus Tuas which, in Latin, means "all yours." The following explanation was then given, "When Karol Wojtyla [John Paul II] was consecrated bishop of Cracow by Pius XII in 1958 he took, 'Totus Tuus' (all yours) as his motto, thus presenting himself to Mary. In his first Urbi et Orbi message immediately after being elected pope he said, 'At this difficult hour, full of fear, we must turn our thoughts with filial devotion to the Virgin Mary who always lives in the midst of Christ and exists as his mother. We must repeat the words, Totus Tuus which 20 years ago were inscribed into our heart and soul.'"

Pope John Paul II has visited many of the major Shrines to Mary. He attributed his escape from death at the hands of a would-be assassin and the overthrow of communism in Eastern Europe to the intervention of Mary. Millions of Catholics are making pilgrimages to the various Marian shrines, seeking and often claiming miracles of healing and answers to their prayers to Mary. New apparitions of Mary and special messages from her are being claimed in various parts of the world.

 Yet, there is absolutely no Scriptural foundation for any of these beliefs or practices. Mary was indeed a virgin in fulfillment of the Old Testament prophecy that Christ would be born of a virgin (Isa. 7: 14). She was a godly woman, but not sinless. As with all true believers in Christ, when Mary died, her soul and spirit went to heaven, but her body awaits the resurrection. She did not bodily ascend to heaven as did Jesus Christ. Nothing in Scripture indicates that prayers were ever offered to Mary nor that she was worshipped by anyone. Most of Roman Catholic teaching concerning Mary is based entirely on human tradition and contradicts God's Word - those that carry on this "filial devotion" to her will be judged for their disobedience.

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